How much disk space should a newbie site need?

[anand84]

Hi
Just set up a forum site for MBA preparers. I expect to use traffic from one another site to mine..

The thing is I signed up for this domain to make up another site, but now have decided for the forums. Actually, I only have a 10MB diskspace site., and only 3.5MB is left. So, I would be buying 10MB or 25MB more in the next couple of days.

I just want to know from you ppl, how much posts on an average will a space of 10MB hold. My traffic is not going to be huge, so I want to know if I can manage with this.

[ogletree]

You can get tons of disk space for real cheap. Look around at the different web hosts. Just do some searches on a search engine.

[anand84]

No. buying webspace is not a problem. I have one dirt cheap host..However, I want a rough estimate of how much space gets used if, say a 100 posts are made. I saw people who have 2000MB space,etc.. so, I want to know how much I need to stock up for the present.

[ogletree]

Get an account now for whatever you need and make sure you are getting a decent price on upgrages from that host. Some hosts charge you on your avg monthly disk space usage so if you have a spike you will have time to upgrade the account and not pay overage charges.

[rogerd]

>>a 100 posts are made.

You won't notice the difference in disk space.

[anand84]

thnx..so going by your words, adding 10MB more, and a total of 13.5MB;would it hold for next two months, considering the fact that mine is a newbie site and I can make something like 5 new registrations a day..

[willmullis]

The posts themselves do not take up much disk space, in fact I think most hosts seperate MySQL data storage and actual file storage.

Your big storage problem will be pictures and files. If you are gonna store alot of avatar and uploaded pics you will need more storage.

[anand84]

oh well..thanks.. my site has in fact a lot of unwanted avatars. I'll see if I should remove some of these. Thanks everyone.